Curtain-rod bracket



I mams@ c. w. KlRscH CURTAIN ROD BRACKET Filed'Jan. 27. 192s arch 25 inerte FTENT @fif'l cnenitns w. meen, or sruncrs, MICHIGAN.

CURTAHT-ROD BRACET.

Application led January 27, 1923. Serial No. 615,224.

To all rwhom t may conceive.:

Be it known that I, CHAnins W. Kussen, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sturgis, in the county of St. Joseph and State of li/lichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain- Rod Brackets, f which the following is a specification.

This invention has 'for its object to provide new and useful improvements in hollow, telescopic and extensible curtain rods and brackets therefor which may be very simply and easily mounted on the window f casing and be not only firmly supported thereon but also so rmly engaged withthe brackets as to prevent rattling or accidental disengagement of the rod from its brackets in any ordinary manner.

'llie present invention is more or' less along the lines of those described and claimed in my (zo-pending applications for patents filed respectively von the 23 day of November, 1922, Serial No. 602,904, and of even date herewith Serial No. 615,223', the present invention providing means for obtaining the same objects as are attained by the means shown in said other applications in a somewhat dierent way.

Suitable embodiments of the present invention are illustrated in the laccompanydrawings, whereinig. 1 is a top plan view of a curtain rod and brackets constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is e. detail transverse section on the line 2 2 of F ig. l;

Fig. 3 is a detail transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l;

Fig. a is a section on the line f-tt of Fig. 3;

Vi is a section on the line 5-5 of projection for engaging in a perforation in the upper edge wall of the rod.

eferring now to the drawings, A indicates the female and B the male member of a curtain rod of the type set forth,v the end portions C of which extend substantially at right angles to the telescopically interengaged metal portions thereof. v In the top and bottom edge walls of the arms C are provided perforations D which are adapted to receive and engage the projections E at the upper ends of vertically disposed fins F extending perpendicularly to the brackets or wall plates G adapted to be mounted on a window casing` or the like. The said projections E constitute what might be termed suspending hooks for Supportingthe rods in an obvious manner and also particularly described in the aforesaid pending applications. The engagement of said projections with the rods is, however, normally a very free and loose one which permits the middle telescopic portion of the rod to be capable of being readily moved vertically or about a fulcrum contiguous to the projections E for disengaging the rods from theV brackets and vice versa. This loose and free engagement is very desirable from the standpoint of the ease of handling the rods but is detrimental to a certain extent in that it also permits the accidental disengagement of the rods from the brackets by a iiection of the rods and sudden .release thereof, such as by a child pulling on the curtain or drapery.

ln order to more firmly hold the rod in place against such possibility of accidental release and all possibility of rattling under the influence ofdrafts, it is preferable to provide a frictioiial engagement of a portion of the rod with the bracket and this is accomplished preferably by providing the plate with a pair of opposed projections H extending outwardly therefrom and having their free end portions converging and which are adapted to enter the open end of the rod adjacent the lower edge wall thereof and between the front and rear walls of the saine to eifect a flexing of said walls away from each other, it being understood that this is preferred and does noxl express the limit of the invention, so that in practice in mounting the rod on the brackets, they are rst positioned and held preferably at such an inclination from the horizontal, as to cause the projections E to engage in the 'to the horizontal position and into engage` ment with the said projections H by forcing the rod over the same.

bviously the width of the rmember B of the rod is less than that of the member C andthe said projections H must therefore be of dimensions slightly in excess ofthe distance between the front and rear walls of the member A of the rod in order to effect a firm engagement therewith as well as with the similar portion of the member B. Grenerally speakin there is ample flexibility in the metal of W ich the rods are composed to permit this, but obviously the projections H may be flexible to a sufficient extent to at least in part compensate for the difference in dimensions of the two members A and B to be engaged therewith. In practice, however, I have found it unnecessary to render the projections H appreciably fiexible.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I have illustrated a slight modification in the embodiment of the invention, wherein a single ogee curved projection I is used in place of the projections H, said projection I being also rendered somewhat concavo-convex, as shown in Fig. 7. The extreme end portion J of said projection is preferably Aso disposed as to either engage the inner face of the lower edge wall of the rod or at least serve to limit a vertical movement of the rod relatively to the bracket, whereby disengagement might be effected. The width of said projection l is greater than the distance between the front and rear walls of the rod so that it operates p in substantially the same manner as the proinapte jections H to effect a firm engagement of the roddwith its brackets, for the purposes aforesai Vt/Yhile l have illustrated suitable embodiments of the invention in the accompanying drawings it will be understood of course that such embodiments may be changed and varied at will without departing from the invention as defined in the appended claim.

I claim as my invention:

A curtain-rod bracket for substantially tubular 'rods terminating in substantially parallel open ended arms each provided adjacent its open end and in its uppermost Wall portion with a perforation, said bracket including a wall-plate, a hook projecting therefrom for engaging in said perforation for supporting the rod and preventing movement thereof awa-y from the said wall plate, the open end of the arm below said perforated wall portion adapted to bear upon said plate to thereby coact with said projection and perforation to normally maintain said arm disposed perpendicularly to said plate, said arm adapted to be pivot ally swung on said projection in one direction to effect disengagement therefrom, and means on said bracket below said projection adapted to frictionally engage and flex and maintain flexed the opposed side wall portions of said arm when the latter is disposed in its normal position perpendicularly to said plate to thereby firmly but yieldably maintain the same in said normal position and yieldably resist pivotal movement thereof in mounting and demounting the rod from its brackets.

CHARLES W. KIRSCH. 

